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Spencer Platt/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- The first woman to go public with accusations of sexual harassment against Herman Cain said Monday that his decision to drop out of the presidential race was a "vindication," but that she was saddened that the former Republican frontrunner "has tried to place the blame elsewhere."

Sharon Bialek said during a Chicago press conference with attorney Gloria Allred that it was wrong for Herman Cain to claim that he suspended his campaign because charges of sexual harassment and a long-term extramarital affair had gotten in the way of his message.

"Herman Cain got in the way of his own message," said Bialek, 50. "His past and his unwillingness to tell the truth got in the way of his own message. He has no one to blame but himself."

Said Bialek, "This is kind of my vindication. I feel I have impacted his race for president."

Bialek said she doesn't feel sorry for Cain, but she does feel sorry for his wife Gloria. Watching the Saturday press conference during which Cain announced the suspension of his campaign, said Bialek, "I was more focused on Gloria, his wife. I felt very sad for her. She probably wasn't aware of this. I felt sad for him that he couldn't bring himself to admit to her some of the things that he had done in the past."

Cain suspended his campaign after Atlanta businesswoman Ginger White came forward to allege that he had carried on a 13-year extramarital affair with her.

"With a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt on me and my family," said Cain in Atlanta, with his wife by his side.

Cain asserted that the allegations of an affair were untrue, using the words "false accusations" three times. He said that the distraction of the accusations hurt him, his family, his wife, and the American people -- "because you are being denied solutions to our problems."

Cain's attorney, Lin Wood, has acknowledged, however, that Cain had given White financial help up until "a week or ten days" before she went public.

White said she was motivated to speak in part by what she felt were Cain's disparaging remarks about the women who had accused him of sexual harassment.

During Monday's press conference, Bialek said that Cain's denial of sexual harassment allegations had inspired her to go public with her own claim.

When she came forward Nov. 7, Bialek described an alleged incident in Washington in 1997 in which the presidential contender, then the president of the National Restaurant Association, stuck his hand up her skirt and tried to pull her head toward his crotch.

"I said, 'What are you doing?'" alleged Bialek, who said she had contacted Cain for help getting a job. "You know I have a boyfriend. This isn't what I came here for."

According to Bialek, Cain answered, "You want a job, right?"

Allred said Monday that when Bialek first approached her with her story about Cain, Bialek thought that Cain would take the opportunity to come clean. "She truly believed that he would acknowledge what he had done wrong," said Allred.

Bialek said Cain had missed an opportunity at redemption. "The American people love to forgive," she said. "But he couldn't find it in his heart to tell the truth."

Before they took questions, Allred and Bialek taped a Cain scorecard on a clipboard that graded Cain on his response to charges of sexual harassment and adultery. Taking off on Cain's "9-9-9" tax plan, Allred said that Cain should receive a score of zero for dishonesty, for refusing to accept responsibility, and for showing a lack of respect to both his accusers and "public intelligence" by making blanket denials.

"Anyone who runs for president has to be prepared to have his character examined," said Allred, who also expressed outrage that by suspending his campaign instead of ending it Cain remains eligible for federal matching funds.

The Cain campaign had characterized both Bialek and Ginger White as women with troubled history. Bialek acknowledged her financial troubles during Monday's press conference. Last week, the Cook County Sheriff's Office attempted to serve her with an eviction notice for non-payment of rent. She denied seeking any financial gain from telling her story to the media, and said her number one priority now is finding a job. According to public documents reviewed by ABC News, Bialek has a history of job changes and financial woes over the past two decades.

She has declared bankruptcy twice, and has lost multiple court judgments for debts totaling more than $10,000. Bialek filed for bankruptcy in 1991 and again in 2001. Among the debts listed in 2001 are over $14,000 in credit card charges and more than $17,000 owed to the lawyer who handled a paternity case.

As of August 2011, she owed the Illinois Dept. of Revenue $4,384. By 2009, she owed the federal government $5,176 in taxes for years 2004 and 2005. There was also a lien for $885 filed against her in 2006 by a company that installed a water heater in her apartment. It was not clear if Bialek has repaid the debts.

In 2000, a judge awarded plaintiff Broadacre Management $4930.77 for unpaid rent, which included court costs. Broadacre was listed as a creditor on her 2001 Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing. Last year Bialek lost a default judgment for more than $3,500 to Illinois Lending, according to Cook County online court records, and in 2005 lost another judgment in a separate case for more than $3,000.

Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images(SHREVEPORT, La.) -- The ex-boyfriend of Sharon Bialek, who claimed that GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain had "touched her in an appropriate manner" more than a decade ago, came forward Monday to defend her claims.

Bialek, who has recently had her credibility and motives assailed from everyone from conservative pundits to Cain's wife Gloria, claims Mr. Cain made the unwanted advances when Bialek was seeking a job back at the National Restaurant Association he headed during the 1990's. Cain denied even knowing Bialek, and denied her claims -- as he did previously of women who said he made innapropriate comments to them while he headed up the organization.

Bialek's ex, Dr. Victor Zuckerman, appeared at a press conference in Shreveport, La. to say he could corroborate her story about being harassed by Cain. Zuckerman, a pediatrician and registered Republican, claimed that at the time of the alleged incident, Bialek told him about going out to dinner with Cain in Washington, D.C. and that he tried to touch her sexually while she sought reemployment at the restaurant association.

The doctor explained his reason for backing Bialek's account of what happened was to "aid the public in evaluating the statements previously made by Mr. Cain and Ms. Bialek."

Zuckerman said that he was not seeking any sort of monetary compensation for telling his story and in the interest of full disclosure, he had never been charged with malpractice or any crime although he did previously file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Bialek's financial woes had been seen by some, including conservative author Ann Coulter, as a possible motive for her to fabricate a smear against Cain.

Attorney Gloria Allred, who represents Bialek, appeared with Zuckerman at the newser, telling reporters that it was time for Cain to admit he knows his client and describe the specifics of the incident that Bialek has spoken about.

Zuckerman added that he was the one who told Bialek to contact Allred, claiming his old girlfriend was "livid" when she heard Cain deny sexual harassment accusations made by other women.

D Dipasupil/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- During a press conference Wednesday in New York City, former porn star Ginger Lee said Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., asked her to lie about their correspondence.

Lee said she never sent photos to or received photos from the congressman, and although he tried to make their conversations sexual by references to his "package," she "did not reciprocate."

"'I have wardrobe demands, too. I need to highlight my package,'" Weiner wrote in an email to Lee that was read aloud at the press conference by Lee's attorney, Gloria Allred.

Allred said that Lee began following Weiner on Twitter because he supported Planned Parenthood and health care, two issues that are important to her.

After the photo of Weiner's crotch went public, Lee said, "he asked me to lie" about the relationship. She said she issued a three-sentence statement at Weiner's request.

On June 2, Lee said Weiner called her and told her to avoid the media. According to Lee, Weiner believed if they both lay low and said nothing, the story would calm down and die. Now Lee wants Weiner to resign.

"I think that Anthony Weiner should resign, because he lied. He lied to the public and the press for more than a week," she said. "If he lied about this, I can't have much faith in him about anything else."

House Democrats and President Obama have all urged the congressman to step down.

Weiner, who has taken a two-week leave from the House, is currently at an undisclosed location seeking treatment for an undisclosed disorder. His wife, Huma Abedin, aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, returned from a trip to Africa with Clinton Wednesday morning.

“I make my own decisions. I’m not anyone’s puppet,” she said of her public allegations of mistreatment by her former employer. “Meg Whitman was wrong when she said someone put a gun to my head. Nobody did. I wanted to speak out because I wanted people to know who Meg Whitman is.”

Celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, who has ties to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown, also appeared with Diaz and refuted Whitman’s recent claims that Nicky is being used as a political tool.

“The truth is Nicky never asked or expected to be part of Whitman’s family. But she expected to be treated family,” Allred said. “She certainly did not expect to be kicked to the curb and thrown out like garbage.”

Whitman fired Diaz, an undocumented immigrant who had worked as a cleaner and caretaker of the her children for nine years, after learning she had been living in the country illegally.

Whitman campaign spokeswoman Andrea Jones Rivera responded to Allred and Diaz's press conference by calling it a "circus" that is drawing focus from the "serious challenges" facing California voters.

"After nearly a week of press conferences, Gloria Allred still refuses to disclose who is paying her fee and who has helped her orchestrate this stunt," Jones Rivera said in a statement.

A Hill Research poll conducted this week shows that 68% of Californians view Gloria Allred unfavorably, and that despite the Brown campaign’s best efforts to capitalize on the controversy, the race remains neck-and-neck.

Photo Courtesy - Jose Luis Villegas-Pool/Getty ImagesUPDATE: Meg Whitman said Thursday that she did not report her long-time housekeeper to immigration officials after finding out she was in the country illegally because "I didn't think it was the right thing."

The Republican candidate for governor of California spoke shortly before lawyer Gloria Allred was scheduled to hold a news conference in which she promised to produce proof the Whitman knew that her housekeeper of nine years, Nicky Diaz, was an undocumented alien. Whitman repeated denials that she was aware of Diaz's true status, but declined to report her to authorities after the woman confessed to her.

Allred told ABC News Thursday that she would produce a letter sent by the Social Security Administration to the Whitman household in 2003 informing the family that the Social Security number of Diaz, their housekeeper and nanny, did not match the name on file. Allred said the letter should have been "a tip-off" to Whitman and her husband that they were employing an undocumented immigrant.

Whitman, who appeared alongside her husband, Griffith Harsh, said such a letter never reached her desk and may have been intercepted by Diaz. "If there is a letter out there I don't know how they got it," she said, "it's not in our house."

(NEW YORK) -- Attorney Gloria Allred told ABC News on Thursday that she will produce evidence that proves Meg Whitman was lying when she denied knowing that her longtime housekeeper was an undocumented worker. It’s a 2003 letter to California’s Republican candidate for governor from the Social Security Administration, asking her to explain why her housekeeper’s social security number didn’t match the name on file.

“We are going to produce [the letter] today and what this shows is total hypocrisy on [Whitman's] part that she is denying that she received it,” Allred said. “Because she knows that shows that that was a tip-off to her and her husband that she was employing an undocumented worker.”

But Whitman denied ever knowing that her nine-year housekeeper, Nicky Diaz, was illegal, and said she never saw any letter from the SSA.

"When we hired Nicky we used an employment agency. Nicky provided her social security card, a California drivers license, she filled out a 1099 because we told the employment agency we have to hire people only who are documented to work here, so we had no idea that she was not here legally.”